Extraordinary Adventures (Thorndike Press Large Print Core) - Hardcover

Wallace, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1432839489 ISBN 13: 9781432839482

Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print, 2017

Synopsis

A single man with a dead-end job who lives in a seedy neighborhood with his spirited mother wins a couples-only vacation and is given only 79 days to find someone to take with him. By the best-selling author of Big Fish. (general fiction). Simultaneous.

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About the Author

DANIEL WALLACE is the J. Ross MacDonald Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directs the Creative Writing Program. He is the author of the novels Big Fish, Ray in Reverse, The Watermelon King, Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician, and The Kings and Queens of Roam.

Review

"Edsel Bronfman is one of the most peculiar and inhibited characters I've ever met. At first I was amused by him, then alarmed by him, then terrified for him. At one point, he almost broke my heart, and I realized I'd fallen completely in love. Daniel Wallace's "Extraordinary Adventures" is deliciously funny, moving, and generous, and Edsel is unforgettable." Mark Childress, author of "Crazy in Alabama "and "Georgia Bottom"

""Extraordinary Adventures" is soulful, funny, wise, and surprisingly sexy. Young Edsel Bronfman has the world before him, if only he can discover how to live in it. This is a novel about finding one's way without a map while searching for the lost places of the human heart. While readers will be reminded of Jess Walter's "The Financial Lives of Poets "and Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News," they won't soon forget Edsel Bronfman and his extraordinary adventure." Wiley Cash, author of "This Dark Road to Mercy "and "A Land More Kind Than Home""

"Edsel Bronfman is one of the most peculiar and inhibited characters I've ever met. At first I was amused by him, then alarmed by him, then terrified for him. At one point, he almost broke my heart, and I realized I'd fallen completely in love. Daniel Wallace's Extraordinary Adventures is deliciously funny, moving, and generous, and Edsel is unforgettable." Mark Childress, author of Crazy in Alabama and Georgia Bottom

"Extraordinary Adventures is soulful, funny, wise, and surprisingly sexy. Young Edsel Bronfman has the world before him, if only he can discover how to live in it. This is a novel about finding one's way without a map while searching for the lost places of the human heart. While readers will be reminded of Jess Walter's The Financial Lives of Poets and Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, they won't soon forget Edsel Bronfman and his extraordinary adventure." Wiley Cash, author of This Dark Road to Mercy and A Land More Kind Than Home

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"Edsel Bronfman is one of the most peculiar and inhibited characters I've ever met. At first I was amused by him, then alarmed by him, then terrified for him. At one point, he almost broke my heart, and I realized I'd fallen completely in love. Daniel Wallace's Extraordinary Adventures is deliciously funny, moving, and generous, and Edsel is unforgettable." --Mark Childress, author of Crazy in Alabama and Georgia Bottom

"Extraordinary Adventures is soulful, funny, wise, and surprisingly sexy. Young Edsel Bronfman has the world before him, if only he can discover how to live in it. This is a novel about finding one's way without a map while searching for the lost places of the human heart. While readers will be reminded of Jess Walter's The Financial Lives of Poets and Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, they won't soon forget Edsel Bronfman and his extraordinary adventure." --Wiley Cash, author of This Dark Road to Mercy and A Land More Kind Than Home

"A hilarious testimony to our propensity for reinvention, and an affirmation of the possibilities lurking right under our noses. Through the cumulative force of his warmth, wit, and humanity, Wallace manages to transform the ordinary life of poor, guileless Bronfman into an extraordinary adventure." --Jonathan Evison, author of This Is Your Life Harriet Chance!

"Ignatious Riley, Forrest Gump, Sugar Mecklin . . . add to thislist of unforgettably lovable Southern characters the name Edsel Bronfman, thethirty-four-year-old boy meets world in Daniel Wallace's funny and tendernew novel. Extraordinary Adventuresleaves no doubt that, if the rest of the world had only half the heart of awriter like Daniel Wallace, we'd all be in much better shape." --M. O. Walsh, author of My Sunshine Away

"?A timely reminder of the transformative powers of friendship, this big-hearted story about an unlikely Casanova is the perfect companion forreaders craving adventure on the high seas of suburbia, along with majorlaughs.?" --Courtney Maum, author of I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without Youand Touch

"Daniel Wallace writes with terrific verve. Extraordinary Adventures is a funny, attuned, and generously humanebook." --J. Bradford Hipps, author of The Adventurist

"Edsel Bronfman is one of the most peculiar and inhibited characters I've ever met. At first I was amused by him, then alarmed by him, then terrified for him. At one point, he almost broke my heart, and I realized I'd fallen completely in love. Daniel Wallace's Extraordinary Adventures is deliciously funny, moving, and generous, and Edsel is unforgettable." --Mark Childress, author of Crazy in Alabama and Georgia Bottom

"Extraordinary Adventures is soulful, funny, wise, and surprisingly sexy. Young Edsel Bronfman has the world before him, if only he can discover how to live in it. This is a novel about finding one's way without a map while searching for the lost places of the human heart. While readers will be reminded of Jess Walter's The Financial Lives of Poets and Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, they won't soon forget Edsel Bronfman and his extraordinary adventure." --Wiley Cash, author of This Dark Road to Mercy and A Land More Kind Than Home

"A sweet-tempered, funny, surprisingly poignant romantic tale." --Kirkus Reviews

"A hilarious testimony to our propensity for reinvention, and an affirmation of the possibilities lurking right under our noses. Through the cumulative force of his warmth, wit, and humanity, Wallace manages to transform the ordinary life of poor, guileless Bronfman into an extraordinary adventure." --Jonathan Evison, author of This Is Your Life Harriet Chance!

"Ignatious Riley, Forrest Gump, Sugar Mecklin . . . add to thislist of unforgettably lovable Southern characters the name Edsel Bronfman, thethirty-four-year-old boy meets world in Daniel Wallace's funny and tendernew novel. Extraordinary Adventuresleaves no doubt that, if the rest of the world had only half the heart of awriter like Daniel Wallace, we'd all be in much better shape." --M. O. Walsh, author of My Sunshine Away

"?A timely reminder of the transformative powers of friendship, this big-hearted story about an unlikely Casanova is the perfect companion forreaders craving adventure on the high seas of suburbia, along with majorlaughs.?" --Courtney Maum, author of I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without Youand Touch

"Daniel Wallace writes with terrific verve. Extraordinary Adventures is a funny, attuned, and generously humanebook." --J. Bradford Hipps, author of The Adventurist

"Edsel Bronfman is one of the most peculiar and inhibited characters I've ever met. At first I was amused by him, then alarmed by him, then terrified for him. At one point, he almost broke my heart, and I realized I'd fallen completely in love. Daniel Wallace's Extraordinary Adventures is deliciously funny, moving, and generous, and Edsel is unforgettable." --Mark Childress, author of Crazy in Alabama and Georgia Bottom

"Extraordinary Adventures is soulful, funny, wise, and surprisingly sexy. Young Edsel Bronfman has the world before him, if only he can discover how to live in it. This is a novel about finding one's way without a map while searching for the lost places of the human heart. While readers will be reminded of Jess Walter's The Financial Lives of Poets and Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, they won't soon forget Edsel Bronfman and his extraordinary adventure." --Wiley Cash, author of This Dark Road to Mercy and A Land More Kind Than Home

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1432839489
• ISBN 13: 9781432839482
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 529